Severance
Severance was one of the most beautiful series I watched of late. Not just intriguing, but beautiful, artistically beautiful. Very happy to hear it's been renewed for a second season.
Let's discuss it! :)
PS: and here you can find Severance: The Lexington Letter – the cherry on the show.
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I loved Severance! It’s definitely my most anticipated upcoming season of a show
I loved it too, I was on the Severance sub on Reddit, hoping something pops up over here.
Waiting for season 2 is pain.
I'm just afraid that its gonna end up being a let down, as so many season 2s have in the not so distant past
I am dying for season 2. Nothing comes close in quality 😭
I had the luck of watching the first season only very recently – weeks ago :)
Absolutely love Severance. Don't know how to do a spoiler tag in Lemmy but I will be heartbroken if John Turturro doesn't get a happy ending with his love interest. They were cute.
Turturro and Walken were simply fantastic in their roles. Long way from More Cowbell...
Oh wow I didn't even realize that was Turturro, I guess I hadn't seen him in a while
I really appreciate that media (even if it’s pandering, whatever) is starting to show a much wider variety of romantic relationships. Representation is important, and seeing the gentle courtship between Burt and Irving was incredibly sweet.
I loved Season 1... it had that rarest of things in modern TV: a premise that was so intriguing, it made me think about it when I wasn't watching the show. So many deep questions to ponder about it.
An element that amazed me were the framings. Art. I've never seen something like that, besides maybe in some films by Kubrick like A Clockwork Orange and 2001.
I couldn’t agree with you more, I absolutely loved the first season. Brilliant acting, perfect pacing and all around just one of the best science fiction shows of recent years.
Hopefully the second season will be as good!
Thanks for the heads up! I keep seeing good things about Silo so it’s now on the watch list.
I watched Severance by mistake, thinking I was watching Succession, which meant I was totally disoriented for the first few episodes as I waited for Brian Cox to turn up. It was glorious. Can totally recommend.
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When is season 2 supposed to come out? They kinda teased it last year during Apple’s iPhone event but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
Only news I saw about it were these. But maybe there's something more recent out there?
I just checked imbd and it said S2E1 will be sometime in 2024.
They were in the middle of filming season 2 when the writers strike started, and production/filming has paused in solidarity with them.
Ah that would make sense. I stan with the strike so I’m willing wait for however long is needed
Ah that would make sense. I stan with the strike so I’m willing wait for however long is needed
I worry about the long gap between season 1 and season 2. A lot of shows have really suffered with such long gaps, especially ones that are as serialized as this one is.
1.5+ years is a long time... It'll be good to rewatch season 1 right before. I share your worries.
First season was like April '22. Second season production is interrupted by the strike, and I don't think that's going to be resolved soon. I'm pretty sure it will be at least two years before we see season 2, and very likely even longer than that. Even if the people involved read my post right now, decided to end the strike right now, just because I said I was worried about this show, started up production again this very afternoon, it'd still be a stretch to see season 2 airing by April of next year. September '24 is more realistic and even that depends on the strike not going that much longer. If it goes to '25, I think it will kill Severance's momentum.
Apple TV+ has had some great shows within the last year. Severance and Silo are towards the top of my recent “best watches” list. For non-SciFi Platonic and Hijack have also been really good.
Agree. The quality reminds me of the first seasons of Black Mirror (which instead has lost quality with time in my opinion) on Netflix. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out.
If you liked Silo check out the books.
The pacing and info reveals is soooooo much better in the books. And if you're paying attention you can put stuff together before any of the characters do because you're getting multiple viewpoints.
I literally couldn't put the books down and finished all three in a week. The author is apparently writing more. But none of them end on cliffhangers. Like, there's stuff I want to know, but I had a feeling season 1 is going to have a cliffhanger and season 2 may take years.
We were headed out to a Half Price Books today - these just got added to my list!
Absolutely loved S01. When will Season 2 come out?
It's going to be a while, production has been shut down due to the writer's strike.
There has been some production continuing quietly in Newfoundland.
There were a few local media reports.
It's going to be a while, production has been shut down due to the writer's strike.
I just started watching this. I can’t believe I waited so long, it’s fantastic! (So far)
I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed severance. It was just so fresh and creative. I especially enjoyed the worker solidarity themes throughout.
This show was unexpectedly incredible. We got Apple TV for Ted Lasso and gave this show a chance. I am so glad we did because we ended up binging the entirety of this show before even continuing with Ted Lasso
It was so beautifully shot. Every frame looked like an art director had purposefully staged it.
Still a lot of questions to be answered by season 2. I hope we find out about the goats. Haha
Make one?
Let this be it? I'll change the title in case.
This is one of those shows I wish I could watch for the first time again. I hardly ever get my husband to watch more than 2 episodes of anything in a row but we binged this show in a day, it was so compelling! Can't wait for a season 2, that was such a big cliffhanger of a last episode.
Fantastic show.
Really brilliant show. I got hooked on it immediately and watched the whole thing inside of two days. I am a bit worried about how they'll follow it up as I got the sense from reading behind the scenes details that season one was meant to be much more of a closed story and that it was the producers that suggested the ending should be a bit more open ended. I'm trying to take it for what it is and not buy into any of the mystery boxes they're setting up for later seasons.
Oh I gotta finish watching it! Thanks for the reminder
FUCK CLIFFHANGER JT WAS SO GOOD EJALDNEOAHWNRK
This show is probably by far my favorite thing on Apple TV. I figured I’d give it a chance and ended up watching all of it. I literally couldn’t stop other than needing to sleep because I had work the next day
Silo was satisfying the itch for a while but now that that’s done it’s back to pain waiting until possibly 2025 even for severance S2
@pglpm such an amazing show and community around it. I could easily get lost in the episodes without feeling the need to theorize too much, but also find detailed and thoughtful community ideas on what might be going on. It reminds me of early Westworld seasons but somehow more grounded. I’m not going to sweat about season 2, I’ll take it as it comes and hoping it’s a fun one.
Can't wait for season 2!
Oh man! I'm really excited about this. Felt like it was such a unique premise and it did not disappoint.
THAT SEASON CLIFFHANGER KILLED ME
Just finished watching it. Absolutely fantastic television. The last episode has me so tense I'm actually shaking.
So well shot, the music thoughout. The way it builds tention. chefs kiss
Touched on this sense of discomfort and alienation with work I have, from the kafkaesque nature and disconnect between the work they do and the result, to feeling like a different person entirely and putting on a mask to conform.
In a way, it made me want to change this about myself and let me be more me, despite all signs in my life until then pointing to that being a bad idea.
Props to the writers for making this not only an interesting and dramatic story, but also a bit subversive to corporate work environments.
This show being an Apple TV show is kind of spicy. Dissociating people mind from job and personal life is laterally something I wouldn’t be surprised Apple would do (if it was possible ofc).
I especially appreciate the likening of corporate rules and culture to actual cults. From experience, the parallels really are striking.
Thank you. This post has convinced me to give it a try.
You won't regret it!!!
If you have or have ever had an office job, it's gonna getcha. So good.
I don't work anymore (disability), but when i did work (sys admin), I'd wished I'd been able to get severed. Fuck.